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1 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Williamson Ann, 39; Stealed pair of shoes from Samuel Cox. Calendar month - hard labour.
2 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Harbour John, 23, and Shelton Thomas, 16; (cf Depositions). 3 mos and hard labour
3 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Saunders John, 27, and King John, 38; Stealing 50 lbs weight of iron (cf Dep). Acquitted
4 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Larner William, 45; cf Depositions. Transported for life
5 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Cowley John, 24, and Gray Joseph, 34; cf Depositions. One year - hard labour one month solitary.
6 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Sawyer William, 21; cf Depositions. 3 mos. hard labour - one week solitary
7 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Mehew Jacob, 57; cf Depositions. 1 month and hard labour
8 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Darlow John, 16; embezzling money belonging to his master. John Mason. 6 months hard labour-one month solitary confinement at discretion of visiting justices
9 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Farey William, 20, and Titmarsh, 20; Assaulting John Lane. No bill against Farey 6 months - 40/- fine recognisances to keep the peace.
10 - Return of Prisoners Tried and Sentenced: Sam Parkes, and James Bull, 22; Assaulting William Dorland cf Depositions. No bill (Parkes), Bull acquitted
11 - Midsummer Gaol calendars (cf Return and Depositions) Charles Bosworth (20) labourer, William Townsend (21) labourer, John Ingram (38) labourer, John Broaker (35) baker.
12 - Michaelmas Gaol calendars. Williamson, Harbour, Shelton (labourers) Saunders, King (blacksmiths) Lainer (Cooper), Cowley (labourer) Grey (Shepherd) Sawyer (hawker), Austen, Farey, Titmarsh, (labourers) Bull (Waterman) Thomas Wade (36) Labourer - to keep the peace.
13 - Deposition: Sarah Jodrell, wife of the Revd.Philip Nevile Jodrell of Yelling charged Charles Bosworth, a former servant, with stealing jewellery (gold watch, two diamond rings etc.) one sunday afternoon, when family and servants were at church, the house being entered from an adjoining knife place. Dennis Berry, jeweller, Huntingdon and his nephew Robert, deposed to buying one ring from Bosworth for 3/- at St.Neots Fair and to communicating with the Jodrells. John Dixie, St.Neots, deposed (whilst at play) to finding jewellery hidden in a hole in a corn shop; Charles Oliver, servant to the Jodrells, to Bosworth's suspicious behaviour. Bosworth's denial and alibi.
14 - Deposition: Joseph Linton, Abbotsley, farmer, charged William Townsend with stealing a sheep worth 30/-. Townsend, recently removed by an order from Little Stukeley to Abbotsley was employed by Linton (Surveyor of the Roads) stone-gathering, Linton's flock consisted of 70 ewes, 10 gist, 20 thraves 58 wethers and 45 lambkins. Joseph Richardson, Potton Beds, jobbing labourer, identified Townsend as the man from whom he had bought a sheep-skin which he later sold to a fellmonger, Mr.Brabrook. Depositions by William Linton, Abbotsley, farmer, Wm. Cade Abbotsley, Joseph Jeffs (Joseph Linton's shepherd), Thomas Coleman (employee of the Overseer of the Poor) Frederick Brabrook, Potton, Beds, fellmonger - all identifying the sheep-skin.
15 - Returns from the gaol: surgeon's reports, chaplain's report, abstract of treadmill accounts, Gaol report, Gaoler's certificates, reports of the visiting justices.
16 - A certificate from James Dawson, Surgeon, Wisbech (that Mr.John Deaumont could not, on account of illness, attend the Assizes) follows a testimonial given by Mr. Deaumont to the honesty of William Sawyer, a former employee, awaiting trial charged with robbing Mr.E.Climensons's cart
17 - Deposition: Charles Beetles, Great Raveley, farmer charged Jacob Mehew with stealing hay - Statements from Henry Teat and Stephen Martin.
18 - Deposition: John Blackman, Yaxley, farmer charged John Cowley and Joseph Grey, Folksworth, labourers with stealing on the day of Norman Cross Statute (Sept. 30) some sacks of undressed barley. Witnesses John Peat, Folksworth, Farmer, Stephen Franly, Yaxley farmer and Sarah Blackman (living with her brother on the farm of her father at Folksworth)
19 - Deposition: John Tedder, Methwold, Norfolk, farmer, charged William Larner, Methwold, Norfolk Cooper with stealing a dark brown mare from his field. George Sanders of Norman Cross New Inn, Yaxley deposed that Larner had left a dark brown mare in his stable.
20 - Deposition: Edward Rowell, Warboys, Labourer living in Warboys Tick Fen in a house upon Mr. Thomas Longland's farm, charged John Harborn and Thomas Shelton, labourers, with entering and stealing a quartern loaf and 3d apples. Witnesses Henry Sond of Warboys, labourer, William Lane, Warboys; labourer's boy.
21 - Deposition: Charles Jacob, Huntingdon, baliff, charged John Brooker with assaulting him as he, Jacobs, was entering premises in Colne rented by Brooker, to distrain his chattels, by authority of Matthew Wasdale, the proprietor of the premises, for rent owing to Wasdale.
22 - Deposition: Thomas Earl, St.Ives, Common brewer, charged William Ross with stealing beer by drinking it through a tube from a 9 gallon cask.
23 - Deposition: Thomas Jenkins, Conington, Innkeeper, (The Sign of the Woolpack) charged John Saunders with stealing 3 bars of iron from a, load bought from Mr. Stanley, ironmonger, Peterborough (Saunders was employed by Jenkins as a blacksmith at 10/- a week and his board) John King, blacksmith, Stilton, was charged with receiving the iron. Deposition: Depositions by James Worthington, Stilton, Yeoman, William Proctor Stanley, Peterborough, ironmonger, Michael Morson, Stilton, blacksmith.
24 - Gaoler's annual return to the secretary of state
25 - Deposition: Thomas Cole, St. Ives, Constable, charged James Bull with assaulting him at a lodging house kept by William Pettit as he, Cole, was arresting a man for stealing poultry from Edmund Climenson. William Wilson corroborated. Bull just come out of gaol had a little beer and knew nothing about it.
26 - Deposition: Thomas Brighty of Ramsey, farmer and miller, charged Elisha Blunders and William Cox, Ramsey, labourers, with stealing horseflesh (2/-), Charles Roberson, Ramsey, Constable corroborated.
27 - Deposition: Thomas Peck, Warboys and his son John deposed against John Ingram of Northampton for stealing chickens.
28 - Huntingdon Borough Quarter Sessions: Depositions against Daniel White for highway robbery William Hopkins, Brampton, Prosecutor, William Bradshaw butcher, Huntingdon, Walter Cattell, Constable, James Smith, Constable, Frederick Hubner, publican, (together with Recognisances - Precept, Jury Lists)
29 - Woodstone Enclosure Award: Application by the principal proprietors (T.W.Vaughan Ann Wainman, Will Lawrance, James Yorke, Wm. Morley, Wm. Geo. Porter) to have the average price of wheat for the last 14 years ascertained. Edward Gibbons, Castor, Northants, gentleman, found this to be 6s 5d 550d/1000
30 - List of Woodstone proprietors.
31 - Appeal against the Somersham Poor Rate by Robert Tabrum Moseley, Somersham, farmer:- Valuation to be made by two surveyors.
32 - Removal Order: Details of a Bill of Costs £8.11.0 due to Wm.Margetts and Son from Old Weston Parish (Abbots Ripton, appellants, Old Weston Respondents) in a case of the removal of a pauper Joseph Crick.
33 - Removal Order: Papers relating to the attempt to remove Benjamin Dixon his wife Pheobe and five children from St. John's Parish, Huntingdon, to the Parish of Wing, near Uppingham, Rutland. (Dixon, born at Kingscliffe, Northants, apprenticed to a tailor in South Luffenham, Rutland, had served as a soldier and had inherited an estate in Kingscliffe from his mother) Huntingdon abandoned the order removing the family to Wing Their settlement in Kingscliffe had been destroyed by the 60th section of the Poor Law Amendment Act.
34 - Removal Order: Samuel Parnell, Winwick to Hamerton - Appeal by Hamerton.
35 - Removal Order: Samuel Savage - Elizabeth his wife and three children - Elton to Hargrave.
36 - Removal Order: Abandonment by Great Gidding of a removal order against Thomas Richardson and his wife Frances, to Woodford, Northants.
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38 - Resignation after 40 years of John Islip from the office of Chief Constable of Leightonstone.
39 - Oath of qualification as J.P. by H.J.Nicholls, Precept and Jury Lists - March - June.
40 - Presentments - Petty Constables.
42 - A Committee appointed to enquire into the application made by the Keeper of the Gaol for incease of salary recommended that, the then salary of £150 being low in comparison with those of gaolers in neighbouring counties, an increase of £30 should be made.
43 - County treasurer's statements
44 - Magistrates certificates: reimbersing witnesses, constables etc for attending the sessions
45 - Recognaizances: uncatalogued bundle - c.20 items
46 - Presentment: James Huckle of Little Paxton for stealing 12 fowls (12/-). True Bill
47 - Presentment: William Townsend of Abbotsley for stealing one sheep (30/-). True Bill
48 - Presentment: John Ingram of Warboys 10 tame chickens (10/-) and 10 tame fowls (10/-). True Bill
49 - Presentment: Charles Bosworth of Yelling for stealing one watch (4/-/-)) and three rings from Philip Neville Jodrell (3/-/-). True Bill
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